ssecorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i dont get what you mean, if i dont do anything python will raise an > indexerror so it is an indexerror.
You wrote: > > > def pop(self): > > > try: > > > return self.queue.pop(0) > > > except: > > > raise IndexError, "pop from empty queue" You are assuming that the only possible exception that can be thrown by "return self.queue.pop(0)" is IndexError. Maybe, maybe not. I gave you one example of how something else could be thrown -- a typo in your code leading to a NameError. Maybe even something more exotic like MemoryError? The defensive thing to do is catch exactly the exception you expect to happen. In this case, that means IndexError.
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